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In the next few years, automatic emergency braking and forward-collision warning systems will become standard in the line-ups of ten major manufacturers. BMW, Audi, Ford, GM, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo are the ones that agreed to this bold plan, trying to reduce casualties on the US roads by as much as possible.
Seeing as campaigns against texting behind the wheel are useless, the manufacturers decided to take a different approach and introduce these systems on all their cars shortly, as standard. Unfortunately, the decision will only apply to the US at first but who knows, maybe it will expand in the future.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the one that make the announcement after starting to evaluate these systems back in February. The results must’ve been quite good since this decision was made.
This is quite a big improvement if we’re to take a look at the big picture. At the moment, out of the ten only Volvo is offering these systems as standard. However, gradual steps to this move have been made in the past as more and more manufacturers started offering this kind of tech at more affordable prices, thus leading to growth in the purchase ratio.
As for the systems themselves, they can be either camera or radar based. The most basic ones use radars and can only detect cars in front of you while the more complex ones can detect pedestrians, cars, bicycles and even animals.
When activated, the usually warn the driver prior to applying the brakes. In case of an emergency, they will bring the car to a complete stop. No word on which of these will become mandatory came from NHTSA or the IIHS but no matter which one it will be, we’re sure the number of crashes will go down considerably on the long run.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the one that make the announcement after starting to evaluate these systems back in February. The results must’ve been quite good since this decision was made.
This is quite a big improvement if we’re to take a look at the big picture. At the moment, out of the ten only Volvo is offering these systems as standard. However, gradual steps to this move have been made in the past as more and more manufacturers started offering this kind of tech at more affordable prices, thus leading to growth in the purchase ratio.
As for the systems themselves, they can be either camera or radar based. The most basic ones use radars and can only detect cars in front of you while the more complex ones can detect pedestrians, cars, bicycles and even animals.
When activated, the usually warn the driver prior to applying the brakes. In case of an emergency, they will bring the car to a complete stop. No word on which of these will become mandatory came from NHTSA or the IIHS but no matter which one it will be, we’re sure the number of crashes will go down considerably on the long run.
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